In practicing meditation, we're not trying to live up to some kind of ideal - quite the opposite. We're just being with our experience, whatever it is. If our experience is that sometimes we have some kind of perspective, and sometimes we have none, then that's our experience. If sometimes we can approach what scares us, and sometimes we absolutely can't, then that's our experience. "This very moment is the perfect teacher, and it's always with us" is really a most profound instruction. Just seeing what's going on - that's the teaching right there. We can be with what's happening and not dissasociate. Awakeness is found in our pleasure and our pain, our confusion and our wisdom, available in each moment of our weird, unfathomable, ordinary everday lives.
Pema Chodron
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I live that feeling in my stomach when things get rough for Lee and I can only try to imagine what it is like for you as I also try to
imagine what it is like for him.
My prayers and meditation are with you and I am truly grateful for
the wonderful doctors and staff that are doing their best to help you. Kathy McPherson - Lee's mom
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